Coal power plant in Groningen, Netherlands. Approximate location 53.4355, 6.8793.
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Eemshaven is a 1,600 MW coal power station in Groningen, Netherlands. It is operated by Essent. Based on reported annual generation of 14,471 GWh, it can supply roughly 4.1 million homes. It ranks #2 of 119 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. Its modelled annual emissions are 323,488 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 75k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 7.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019289.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000103088); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 1,600 MW, Eemshaven is well above the median coal plant in Netherlands (1,040 MW). Technically it is described as IGCC. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Essent.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 29% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 67/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest coal power plant of 7 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 7 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 7,116 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 53.4355, 6.8793 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Eemshaven is a 1,600 MW source-record coal power plant in Groningen, Netherlands, commissioned in 2015.
Eemshaven generates about 14,471 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,134,542 homes.
Eemshaven is operated by Essent.
Eemshaven has modelled emissions of about 323,488 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
